Lovely to Look At (1952)

Gower Champion: Jerry Ralby

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• Tony Naylor : We're trying to finance our show. I'd like to take you folks in as partners. Now, please don't rush but who'd like to be the first to write a check?

  Jerry Ralby : Of course, we've just given you the highlights.

  Al Marsh : And we got some terrific lowlights. Like the part when I play a 36 inch man dropped from a flying saucer, I zoom through the...

  Tony Naylor : It's dynamite!

• Jerry Ralby : How do we get the dough to get over there to get the dough?

• Jerry Ralby : [singing]  When you dance you're charming and you're gentle

  Clarisse : If our lips should brush it's accidental

  Jerry Ralby : You know my approach is strictly mental

  Clarisse : Good heaven rest us, I'm not asbestos, A that's why I won't dance, why should I? I won't dance, how could I? I won't dance, merci beaucoup,

  Jerry Ralby : You know that music leads the way to romance, So if I hold you in my arms...

  Clarisse : I won't dance!

• Jerry Ralby : You're a very good dancer; but, you have no idea what dancing really means.

  Clarisse : I do to! I've looked it up. Dancing is moving parts of or your entire body to rhythm to express an action or a - emotion.

  Jerry Ralby : And that's all?

  Clarisse : Is there more?

  Jerry Ralby : There are many things about dancing you won't find in a dictionary.

• Jerry Ralby : To me, dancing is the loveliest way I know to meet a girl. It's the only way I can hold a girl in my arms in a crowded room and still have her all to myself.

• Jerry Ralby : Dancing is the whistle stop before romance.

• Jerry Ralby : All I ask is just one more chance. Just one more dance?

  Clarisse : You practically have me on the floor already; so, why don't we do it the right way.

• Jerry Ralby : Honey, I'm the poorest / Example of a tourist / I bathe in gloom / At just the thought of Napoleon's tomb / For educational purpose I'd learn much more with you / If I toured a night club floor with you / Dance each dance from eight to four with you / What say Baby, what say Baby?

  [new intro lyrics to "I Won't Dance" apparently written for this movie]